For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

I’ve always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

Maleficent was always so elegant. She always was in control. And to play her was difficult. I worked on my voice a lot. She’s bigger than me. She’s on a different level of performance that I have never done.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Let me spell it out: with the psychotic boss, nothing you do is ever quite right. They set traps, asking you to do things, and no matter how hard you think of accomplishing it in their way, it is wrong and you are to blame. This tends to instill a lot of fear in you.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Words are loaded pistols.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

You listen to Charlie Parker or John Coltrane before they found their voice, they sounded different. And when you listen to them after they found their voice on their instruments, they sound more confident and in control. Artists have that, too.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.